Close enough my friend, it's the Valley side - just across the water from Penrhos Nature Reserve/ Coastal Park.

Here is a photo from the same beach looking towards Holyhead. There is an old wreck in the photo too.

Lovely picture Baz!

She is the the "Thora" a small vessel that used to run coal from the port around to Bedmannarch Bay up that part of the cob that widens out into a grassy square. You know, where the fishermen park.

She would unload there and the coal would go via horse and cart out to Valley and surrounding countryside.

I can't recall the date 1935 - 1950's? but one fateful day the "Thora" made her last trip around Bedmannarch Bay and was scuttled on the beach by the site of the original Valley Foundry, I guess the blacksmith played a major part in the operation; as he would have had the tools and strength.

She was fully surveyed about 5 years ago by a team of scientists and there is a site somewhere that has all these details, and much more but usefully I've lost the url

If you look over the wall from the cob you can see the remains of a load of guttering that somebody dumped whilst parked on that part of the cob. The plastic shards of guttering are to be seen stuck upright in the sand all along the channels which are the deepest part of this portion of the bay. A truly moronic place to fly tip your building rubble and debris.

She is the the "Thora" a small vessel that used to run coal from the port around to Bedmannarch Bay up that part of the cob that widens out into a grassy square. You know, where the fishermen park.

She would unload there and the coal would go via horse and cart out to Valley and surrounding countryside.

I can't recall the date 1935 - 1950's? but one fateful day the "Thora" made her last trip around Bedmannarch Bay and was scuttled on the beach by the site of the original Valley Foundry, I guess the blacksmith played a major part in the operation; as he would have had the tools and strength.

She was fully surveyed about 5 years ago by a team of scientists and there is a site somewhere that has all these details, and much more but usefully I've lost the url

Hey thanks TG for the very interesting info. Holyhead is my home town but embarrassingly I could'nt remember anything about the wreck.

If you look over the wall from the cob you can see the remains of a load of guttering that somebody dumped whilst parked on that part of the cob. The plastic shards of guttering are to be seen stuck upright in the sand all along the channels which are the deepest part of this portion of the bay. A truly moronic place to fly tip your building rubble and debris.

Yes maybe it was a company that did it due to the cost of getting rid of commercial waste. Sadly these morons are rarely caught.

She is the the "Thora" a small vessel that used to run coal from the port around to Bedmannarch Bay up that part of the cob that widens out into a grassy square. You know, where the fishermen park.

She would unload there and the coal would go via horse and cart out to Valley and surrounding countryside.

I can't recall the date 1935 - 1950's? but one fateful day the "Thora" made her last trip around Bedmannarch Bay and was scuttled on the beach by the site of the original Valley Foundry, I guess the blacksmith played a major part in the operation; as he would have had the tools and strength.

She was fully surveyed about 5 years ago by a team of scientists and there is a site somewhere that has all these details, and much more but usefully I've lost the url

The site wouldn't be one of these, would it, Thatguy? (You might need some time to look through ... )

Close enough my friend, it's the Valley side - just across the water from Penrhos Nature Reserve/ Coastal Park.

Here is a photo from the same beach looking towards Holyhead. There is an old wreck in the photo too. Lovely picture Baz!

She is the the "Thora" a small vessel that used to run coal from the port around to Bedmannarch Bay up that part of the cob that widens out into a grassy square. You know, where the fishermen park.

She would unload there and the coal would go via horse and cart out to Valley and surrounding countryside.

I can't recall the date 1935 - 1950's? but one fateful day the "Thora" made her last trip around Bedmannarch Bay and was scuttled on the beach by the site of the original Valley Foundry, I guess the blacksmith played a major part in the operation; as he would have had the tools and strength.

She was fully surveyed about 5 years ago by a team of scientists and there is a site somewhere that has all these details, and much more but usefully I've lost the url

Interesting information this which throws a fresh light on my shaky memories.

I recall being told (or rather learning by half listening) that this wrecked boat was somehow associated with Scott of the Antarctic -- it had been part of his fateful expedition. Thinking about it now it makes no sense.

No evidence was forthcoming to support this widely held local folk tale but it seemed to be a part of HH history -- as much as the shell of the wartime MTB beached at Bolsach which had been bought by a local for 1/- "for the wood".

If you look over the wall from the cob you can see the remains of a load of guttering that somebody dumped whilst parked on that part of the cob. The plastic shards of guttering are to be seen stuck upright in the sand all along the channels which are the deepest part of this portion of the bay. A truly moronic place to fly tip your building rubble and debris.

I wondered what they were, thanks,

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